Chapter 31: Guess the Question
"Master, it's all packed. ”
Wearing a white layered Luo skirt with exquisite makeup, Su Sujiao, who was captivating the country and the city, said in a coquettish voice.
Li Miaozhen bowed slightly, opened the sachet tied to his waist, and the swirling suction poured out, and more than a dozen ghosts in the general's tent were ingesting it.
"It's a pity, you still haven't been able to break through to the Fourth Rank Realm. Su Su sighed and said:
"Otherwise, at the level of a disciple of the Human Sect, there will be no opponent for you. ”
"Yuan Ying is so easy to cultivate. Li Miaozhen sighed helplessly.
She has been stuck in the Jindan Realm for two whole years.
The bandits in Yunzhou have been cleared and suppressed, and Li Miaozhen cooperated with the Yunzhou local army and the two golden gongs to attack the mountains and pull out the villages, and razed the largest villages, and there are dozens of small villages.
Of course, the bandits in Yunzhou are like maggots on tarsal bones, which have multiplied and existed in this land for hundreds of years, not that they can be exterminated.
After a few years, it will resurge and take root.
The current results are the limit of what the local army can do. Yunzhou will be stable for several years, and Li Miaozhen is very satisfied with this result.
Next, she has to do her own thing - the battle between heaven and man!
The Heavenly Sect and the Human Sect had to discuss the Tao every other day, and before that, the outstanding disciples of the younger generation of the two sects took the lead in colliding to warm up for the battle between heaven and man.
Li Miaozhen was one of the most prominent figures among the disciples of this generation of Heavenly Sect, and the other was Li Miaozhen's senior brother and a member of the Heaven and Earth Society, holding the No. 7 Ground Book Fragment.
But that guy is in the Northeast, and he lost contact with him.
"It's a pity that the annoying rotten egg has fallen, otherwise you can help me investigate the Su family's murder case. Su Su said suddenly.
Li Miaozhen looked at the charm who grew up with him, and his heart moved, in fact, Su Su's home was not in the capital, even if that guy wanted to investigate, it was impossible for him to leave the capital and go all the way to investigate an old case.
Su Su herself understands this truth, but she always talks about it from time to time, seemingly regretting the murder case, but in fact regretting the stinky and shameless man.
So, be too forgetful........ Li Miaozhen sighed in her heart.
Relatives and friends have died, and it is difficult to mourn. Lovers change their hearts, and resentment is intertwined.......... The seven emotions and six desires in the world are all karmic fire, or how to say that love is deep and long-lived.
Only ruthlessness can last forever.
Leaving the military tent with Su Su, more than 400 Feiyan troops gathered in the square and waited quietly.
Four hundred soldiers unloaded their armor.
Li Miaozhen slowly swept over the soldiers, at this time, some of them changed into civilian clothes, some wore coarse linen clothes, some dressed like a rich man, and some were tattered like beggars........ That's what they were meant to be.
The Feiyan Army is a ragtag army, with members from all over the world, including beggar disciples, prodigal sons from all over the world, and thieves who rob the rich and help the poor.
They were all assembled in Yunzhou and organized into an army because of one person, and that person was called Feiyan Woman.
Now that Li Miaozhen is leaving, this army will naturally disperse.
After the end of the banditry, Yang Chuannan privately approached Li Miaozhen, wanting to incorporate the Feiyan Army into the regular army and train it into the ace army of Yunzhou. Hopefully, she can convince the soldiers of the Feiyan Army to stay in Yunzhou.
But no one wanted to stay.
"For more than a year, we have fought side by side, uprooting hundreds of large and small cottages and beheading thousands of bandits. Wherever we passed, the people were able to recuperate and recuperate without fear of banditry. Everywhere we passed, merchants were able to trade and support their families. Everywhere we go, the light of justice spills down.......
Li Miaozhen thanked all the brothers for their unwavering companionship, however, there is no banquet in the world. The trip to Yunzhou is over, I will continue to move forward, and you should also go home to reunite with your family and friends.
"The road of life is long, or bumpy or smooth, or bitter or sad and joyful, I hope you will remember the time in Yunzhou and don't forget your original intention. ”
Speaking of this, Li Miaozhen looked at the four hundred soldiers, clenched his fists, and said in a sonorous voice: "But do good deeds, don't ask about the future." ”
Four hundred soldiers clenched their fists, and the sound was like a frenzy:
"But do good deeds, don't ask about the future. ”
This is the Swift Woman they are willing to be loyal to and willing to follow.
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Southern Xinjiang.
The reason why the Gu clan is called a barbarian tribe is not because they drink blood, but because they are Gu-oriented, and their cultivation system and living habits are all in line with Gu worms.
In this way, Gu worms can be cultivated and assimilated with Gu worms.
To put it more appropriately, the development of the Gu clan follows the "Gu standard", so the level of civilization cannot be compared with the "human-oriented" Dafeng, the Western Regions and the Northeast countries.
The civilizational gap is manifested in many aspects, the most obvious of which is culture and architecture.
The Gu people still use the hieroglyphs of the ancient era, and the buildings are mainly yellow mud houses and grass houses, using pottery instead of stone tools.
However, the clothes he wore were not much different from those of the common people of Dafeng. The Gu people in southern Xinjiang are good at planting mulberry and raising silkworms, and the quality of the silk collected is several times higher than that of Dafeng.
However, they were not good at weaving, so they were often bought by Daehong merchants for high-quality silk at low prices, or bartered for ready-made fabrics.
Boshan is a hundred miles longitudinal and horizontal, and the products are abundant.
There are countless birds and animals in the mountains, herbs and wild fruits. At the foot of the mountain is a fertile soil, with dense rivers, and the base camp of the Force Gu Department is here.
The Li Gu Department has reclaimed thousands of hectares in this plain, some of the tribes are farming, some are hunting, bartering with each other, and having enough food and clothing.
Mo Sang carried a horn bow on his back and returned with a team of sons and daughters hunting, some carrying hundreds of pounds of wild boars, and some carrying colorful brocade pheasants, and returned with a full load.
In the field at the foot of the mountain, Moisan saw his sister Lina, who was picking vegetables with the women.
Lina was wearing a simple cloth dress, revealing two slender and well-proportioned calves, the climate in southern Xinjiang was hot, and Dafeng's Luo skirt and long sleeves couldn't be worn here, so the people of the Gu clan would cut and modify Dafeng's clothing.
The hem of the skirt reaches only the knees, and the sleeves are short to the elbows.
"Lina!"
Mo Sang shouted, and waited for his sister to raise his head before he continued: "Granny Tiangu sent Xue Ying to pass the book yesterday and asked you to go see her today, why are you still rubbing here." ”
Lina was obviously stunned, and then patted her brain: "Oops, I forgot, why didn't you remind me earlier." ”
Mo Sang heard the men behind him laughing, and the women in the fields laughed too.
It was full of happy air for a while, but Mo Sang felt a little embarrassed, and turned around and angrily scolded the men: "What are you laughing at." ”
On the other side, Lina, who was wearing soft cloth boots, washed her hands by the stream, planning to go to the Heavenly Gu tribe a hundred miles away.
Seeing this, Mo Sang hurriedly shouted: "The dam of the Heavenly Gu Department has lost a passage, you remember to help repair it." ”
"Got it!" Lina replied crisply, and ran away.
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Compared with the Qi Li Gu Department, the Tian Gu Department is more like the county seat of a certain Dafeng Dynasty, although it is a little simpler, but it has got rid of the grass houses, and is dominated by yellow mud houses and brick houses.
The Tiangu Department was built at the foot of Luoxia Mountain, from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, there were terraced fields one after another, and there was a dam on the mountain, which suddenly burst yesterday and washed away the terraces.
Lina, who used to play in various departments when she was young, climbed Luoxia Mountain with ease, trekked in the mountains for a long time, and saw the collapsed dam mouth.
I saw dozens of people from the Heavenly Gu Department standing at the edge of the reservoir, led by the white-haired Heavenly Gu Mother-in-law.
Lina's gaze swept over them, looking at the reservoir, where the corpse of a monster was floating on the surface of the water, the monster was more than ten feet long, its body was covered with black scales, its head was pointed, its neck was slender, and its claws were covered with membranes.
Granny Tian Gu noticed Lina and beckoned to her.
Lina jumped lightly between the rocks, came to the Heavenly Gu Mother-in-law, and said in a coquettish voice, "Mother-in-law, what kind of monster is that. ”
"Jiao!"
Granny Tian Gu showed a kind smile: "I don't know where it came from, the dam was destroyed, and the seedlings that had just been planted in the tribe were all washed away." ”
"Oh. ”
Lina had seen Jiao for the first time, but had heard that this monster lived in the densely intertwined waters of southern Xinjiang, scurrying along the underground river.
One of Lina's uncles is said to have been eaten by Jiao while playing in the water.
"You help collect some rocks and plug the gap as soon as possible. Heavenly Gu Mother-in-law said.
"Okay!"
Lina, who was the coolie, was the best at it, and she ran away in no time, and in less than half an hour, everyone heard the dull footsteps, and following the sound, a "stone mountain" moved slowly.
This stone mountain is more than 20 zhang (60 or 70 meters) high, and it can set off stormy waves in the reservoir.
The stone mountain was not moved by herself, but was carried by Lina, but compared to the boulder of twenty zhang, she was as small as an ant.
The faces of the people in the Heavenly Gu Department did not change, and they seemed to have long been accustomed to it.
Among the seven tribes of the Gu clan, the Li Gu Department is known for its strange power, Lina's father, Long Tu, that is the real moving mountain, when he fought with Dafeng, he carried a mountain and threw an army, killing thousands of people.
The boulder slowly moved near the dam, and with a bang, Lina lowered it.
Everyone stood on the dam and looked down, only to see Lina slowly sinking her waist, steady, brewing for a few breaths, and suddenly "Hey Hou" roared, and punched the surface of the boulder.
With a click, a spiderweb-like crack appeared on the surface of the boulder, which spread rapidly, falling apart in an instant, turning into pieces of rubble.
At this moment, the materials for repairing the dam are available, and there is no need for the people of the Heavenly Gu Department to work hard to collect them, which greatly saves time and labor.
Leaving the tribesmen to repair the dam, Granny Tian Gu took Lina down the mountain and returned to her residence, a courtyard house with a patio.
Granny Tiangu's daughter-in-law was drying the corpses of Gu worms in the yard, while her son was raising Gu worms in the backyard.
Granny Tian Gu took Lina straight into the house, took out a wooden box from the cabinet, and opened the box, and there was a white jade-like insect lying inside, shaped like a scorpion, with six arthropods.
The two black eyes on the top of his head look a little cute.
"This is the Seven Absolute Gu refined by my mother-in-law's wife, before he left, this Gu was only half refined, and my mother-in-law spent twenty years and finally completed it. Granny Tian Gu pushed the box to Lina and said:
"I'll leave it to you for safekeeping. ”
"For me?" said Lina, surprised.
"It's not for you, it's for you to keep it, and you will give it to someone who is destined to give it in the future. ”
A string of question marks flashed through Lina's mind.
She didn't understand the direction of the matter at all, and she was given the Seven Absolute Gu for her breakthrough, and asked her to transfer it to someone who was destined.
Granny Tian Gu closed the box and said, "Do you remember what your mother-in-law told you about the two thieves?" ”
Lina nodded vigorously: "Yes." ”
At the same time, she remembered No. 3, who had not passed the book for a long time, and the book chat group had returned to its previous calm.
"There is a legend in the Heavenly Gu Department that on the day the Gu God recovers, the entire Southern Xinjiang and even Kyushu will be transformed into a Gu world. Although the Gu clan survives by raising Gu refining Gu, Gu is just a tool, and we are still human beings. ”
Granny Tian Gu's eyes showed a complicated look: "This is not a legend, it is the end of the performance of the Heavenly Gu Department from generation to generation, in order to get a glimpse of this future, many seniors have been counterattacked by the heavens."
"In order to keep the Gu God asleep, twenty years ago, the old man thought of a way, he was going to steal something, use it to suppress the Gu God, and let it sleep for generations.
So he left Southern Xinjiang, and there was no news from him again, and it didn't take long for the natal Gu he left in the tribe to wither, and I learned that he was dead. ”
"What was the stolen thing?" Lina hugged the wooden box, her eyes as blue as the sea twinkling with curiosity.
Granny Tian Gu shook her head, patted the back of Lina's hand, and said in a kind voice: "Mother-in-law is old, and she can't stand the backlash of heaven." ”
Otherwise, it can't be revealed.
"Last night, I got a glimpse of a change in fate, and that thing is about to be born, Lina, and you are involved. Granny Tian Gu stared at her with burning eyes.
"Me?"
Lina blinked her blue eyes, wondering how she could appear in the "story" of Granny Tian Gu, an ordinary child.
"Go to the capital, you have cultivated enough, but you lack experience, so you just take this opportunity to go to the world for a walk. Granny Tian Gu added:
"I consulted with your father about this, and he agreed. ”
Go to the capital........ Lina looked at the wooden box in her hand and realized that she was not too resistant to such a thing. The first thing that came to her mind was No. 3, No. 1, and Daoist Jin Lian.
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At noon, the warm sun hung in the sky, and the Xu Mansion was filled with laughter.
A table of wine banquets was set up in the compound, the left tables were Xu clan people, and the right tables were Xu Pingzhi and Xu Qi'an's colleagues and old friends.
The county magistrates of Changle County and the fast hands of the fishing squad are also among them, and of course, there is also Lu Qing, the chief catcher of the government office.
It's a pity that Li Yuchun, Song Tingfeng and others are in Yunzhou and can't participate in the banquet.
Xu Pingzhi took Xu Qi'an to toast from table to table, Xu Qi'an originally just coped with things, but when he heard everyone congratulating him, he shouted Lord Viscount........ Suddenly I fell in love with the feeling.
When he arrived at the table of Zhu County, the fat-headed and big-eared county commander said with emotion: "This official has a niece, who is twenty-eight years old and quite handsome. Originally, he wanted to be rationed to Ning Yan, but now it seems that it will not be possible. ”
Zhu Xianling's daughter is already married, otherwise she can barely match Xu Qi'an. The niece is not good, the identity is not enough.
Wang Zhutou smiled and continued: "Ning Yan is now a viscount, and the only ones who can match him are the ladies and the daughters of wealthy families." ”
The crowd laughed.
Lu Qing, who was at the next table, heard it in his ears, and his heart was very uncomfortable, and he was melancholy.
Originally, as the head catcher of her government, it was more than enough to match a watchman. And it belongs to peers, which can be described as a match made in heaven.
But after Xu Qi'an was knighted, he became a nobleman, and he definitely couldn't marry a female catcher as his wife, which was not in line with etiquette.
The banquet did not disperse until two o'clock (half past one in the afternoon), Xu Qi'an and Second Uncle Xu were responsible for sending off the guests, and the aunt commanded the subordinates to clean up the mess.
At three o'clock, Xu Erlang came back with his servants and the maid.
The aunt is worthy of being her own mother, and she instructed the cook to heat a table of leftovers for Erlang.
"Erlang will have a good rest after eating, and he will have to get up early tomorrow to go to the Gongyuan for the exam. "The aunt diligently served vegetables to her son.
It's not time to eat yet, but Xu Erlang has to get up early tomorrow, so he has to eat early and rest early, if he doesn't sleep well, it will affect tomorrow's exam.
Xu Qi'an sat on the side and drank tea, and suddenly said, "Erlang, which ones will be tested?"
While eating vegetables, Xu Erlang briefly introduced: "Strategy, scripture, poetry." ”
After a pause, he said: "Since the first emperor, poetry has been eliminated from the imperial examination, until the eleventh year of Yuanjing, Wang Zhenwen entered the cabinet, and under his promotion, poetry returned to the imperial examination. ”
During the two hundred years of the Confucian orthodoxy controversy, the poetry world weakened and had reached the point of withdrawing from the imperial examination stage.
"If the eldest brother participates in the imperial examination, if nothing else, at least he can revive the poetry world. Xu Erlang commented objectively, he took a sip of wine, turned to look at his father, and said quietly:
"Since the end of last year, my eldest brother has become famous in the poetry world, and my father has gradually become famous. ”
Xu Lingyin, who was teasing his daughter, was stunned for a moment, and then showed joy and laughed:
"In fact, Da Lang himself is talented, and he hasn't cultivated much for his father, so people who read like to make a big fuss....... How do they compliment me?"
The corners of Xu Xinnian's mouth twitched: "Praise you for not being a son of man." ”
“???”
Xu Pingzhi slapped the table angrily: "How can this be reasonable, why do they say that." ”
Xu Erlang glanced at his eldest brother and laughed: "The more poems your eldest brother writes, the more infamous your father will be, maybe you will be famous in history in the future." ”
That night, Xu Pingzhi couldn't sleep.
The aunt scolded: "Before the person dies, you think about the reputation in a few hundred years and worry about it." ”
"The woman's opinion. Xu Pingzhi snorted, worried: "Erlang has the capital of the first assistant, and Dalang can also leave a mark in history in the future." When future generations evaluate them, they will praise them. But when it comes to me, there are only four words: not a son of man. ”
The aunt muttered, "That's good to be famous in history........ By the way, let me tell you something, what will Erlang do if he is sent abroad in the future, can you find a way to keep him in the capital. ”
"Don't even think about it, he is a student of Yunlu Academy, and expatriation is inevitable. Let's hope it's not too far away. Xu Pingzhi said helplessly.
The students of Yunlu Academy basically missed the power center of the officialdom in the capital. Most of them will be assigned to various states and places, and even if they stay in the capital, they will only be petty officials.
"Otherwise, if you go to Ning Yan and talk about it, he is a watchman and knows the princess, there must be a way. The aunt sat on the bed with her legs bent, frowning in the candlelight.
"This is a matter for the officials, what does it have to do with the watchman. Xu Pingzhi lowered his voice:
"Fighting people to supervise hundreds of officials, the most hated by civil officials, would rather come forward, it would only be counterproductive. ”
The aunt lay on the bed, hugged the pillow, and frowned.
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"Knock Knock Knock ......"
Xu Xinnian, who was dressed in white and was about to fall asleep, heard a knock on the door and opened the door to see Xu Qi'an standing outside the door.
"What is my eldest brother looking for me. ”
Xu Qi'an looked at the handsome little brother with red lips and white teeth, and grinned: "Come and guess the question." ”
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PS: In the next chapter, I have to check the information of Chunqiu, although it is not to focus on describing the examination, but I must also know it in my heart.
Seeing that my attitude is so rigorous, how about voting for a few monthly passes, no, I can show you.
Change it first, then change it, continue to code the next chapter, and go back and fix the typo.